U.S. Department of Energy's Plasma Science Center holds third annual meeting at PPPL

Jeff Walker, a University of West Virginia graduate student, discussed his poster on dusty plasmas with PPPL physicist Erik Gilson.

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(Photo by Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of Communications)

Erinc Tockluoglu, a Columbia University graduate student working at PPPL, showed his research to Ikuo Sawada of Tokyo Electron.

(Photo by Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of Communications)

Graduate student Meenakshi Mamunuru of the University of Minnesota discussed her work on nanoparticles in dusty plasmas.

(Photo by Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of Communications)

Meeting participants viewed components of the National Compact Stellarator Experiment during a tour of PPPL.

(Photo by Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of Communications)

The Laboratory’s Magnetic Reconnection Experiment was part of the tour.

(Photo by Elle Starkman, PPPL Office of Communications)

Participants gathered for a group photo outside the Lyman Spitzer Building at PPPL.

More than 50 participants from a dozen U.S. research institutions gathered at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) May 17-18 for the third annual meeting of the U.S. Department of Energy’s Plasma Science Center. The meeting featured papers on low-temperature plasmas, whose practical applications range from lighting to nanotechnology. Events at the session included a display of graduate student posters and a tour of PPPL.